Erich Auerbach's Cliques
Philologists Unite
This was a pretty nostalgic group. It's hard not to be nostalgic when it comes to philology: who the heck cares about—much less studies—philology these days? When was the last time sometime tol...
Intellectuals in Exile
This group was by no means limited to Leo Spitzer, Erich Auerbach, Walter Benjamin, René Wellek, Roman Jakobson, and Ernst Cassirer. Heaps of intellectuals got the heck out of Germany (and the res...